Newish to Ubuntu so forgive if I word things oddly...
All I really want to do is have my ls command changed to ls --color=always -ragX
Got that solved... Alias will do nicely. Now, to have that run ...

I'm relatively new to programming as a whole and some tutorials have been telling me to use ls -l to look at files in a directory and others have been saying ll. I know that ls is a short list, but is ...

running Ubuntu on an WIN7 Inspirion, that will not boot up.
Ubuntu has been working ok, till a few weeks ago. It wouldn't update software.
Error was COUNTBROKEN>0. (or BROKENCOUNT>0)
Would appreciate ...

OK I know it's a super stupid question but driving me crazy!
I just had new 14.10 VPS setup and while setting up some basic initial stuff in the terminal out of sudden "ls" command stopped showing any ...

Today I typed ls command in my home directory, and it only showed "examples.desktop" and not the folders. But in the past, it showed all the folders like Documents and Downloads. What is the problem ...

I have a symbolic link in my /var/www/ directory that links to WordPress. When I run the command ls -la from the /var/www/ directory the link to WordPress doesn't show up. Is there a way to list all ...

Is it possible to list hidden files without using the characters mentioned above? This means not using any options or the * wildcard as well as some other characters (e.g this is not allowed "ls -a", ...

My terminal is currently in the home directory, and the home directory contains a directory which have "round" as the substring.
Is there any way to directly change to that directory without typing ...

I have a directory where I am writing lots of files but I know each of them fall under one of the 3 pre-determined memory sizes based on what I write. Any file I write may be either 300KB or 129.1MB ...

I edited .bashrc file with PATH value, but when I open a new terminal after this, none of command is working.
When i am opening a new terminal its giving :
bash: export: `/usr/lib/java/jdk1.7.0_51': ...

I've logged into my Ubuntu server from work via putty under Windows. Right away I noticed something weird. I could not use the ls command. Got:
-bash: /bin/ls: no such file or directory
I didn't pay ...

I need to get a list of filenames and path along with the duration of the file. All are video files. Some files are in subfolders as well. I need the list sorted according to duration.
My goal is to ...